Imam Ardhianto

University of Indonesia | UI · Anthropology

In Indonesia, farmers used to collect seed from the best plants for sowing but the changed with the Green Revolution and the introduction of improved varieties, farmers have became plant-breeders. These farmers and others have been trained in plant breeding at a farmer field school (FFS), a program of the Center for Genetic Resources, Agricultural...

Revolutionary Fact, Evolutionary Path: An Introduction "Before the Green Revolution we were the selectors of local seeds. During the Green Revolution we have been the buyers and planters of government seeds. Now, we want to be plant breeders, producing our own ideal seeds," these statements are voiced by a group of farmer-plant breeders from Indram...

Contrary to the assumption that religious conversion is strongly influenced by the hegemony of global forces (colonialism and modern state formation) over local communities, this paper argues that internal class antagonisms and material conditions also play an important role in the dynamics of adoption of or resistance to Christianity. By taking na...

This paper is a preliminary assessment to identify the vanishing and the remaining social feature of precedence and origins after the adoption of Christianity in Central Borneo. While major publications are indicating the importance of such concepts to understand the structural basis of Austronesian society (Fox 2006, Vischer 2009), this paper woul...

This article explores lessons learned from studying an Indigenous Christian community, the Kenyah, by a young male Muslim anthropologist in two different countries which have differing Muslim-Christian relations, namely Malaysia and Indonesia, which border each other on the island of Borneo. In so doing, this approach elaborates on the implications...

The structural form and cultural content of a society emerge not as self-determining socio-cultural monads but as a consequence of societal interdependence and cultural contact (Sahlins and Graeber in On kings. Hau Books, 2017, p. 350). This kind of inter-societal relation and regional political dynamics is sources of cultural production and likewi...

This book argued that the adaptive characteristics of the Pentecostal-Evangelical mode of religious authority and organization to local political-cultural situations and its mutual relation to the transformation of adat among the Kenyah are influential in the development of this denomination in central Borneo. It has been important within the conte...

As mentioned in earlier chapters, the history of religious change among the Kenyah not only includes tension between an egalitarian impulse and a hierarchical way of maintaining religious authority within one denomination or its relation to the separate adat institution.

Since its first contact with the Kenyah in the 1930s, the Christian and Missionary Alliance has claimed to prioritize the education of local evangelists, with the aim of creating a self-planting church.

This chapter’s argument arose from my reflection on elaborating the gap between my expectation of encountering traditional religious systems in the field and the reality of religious life among the Kenyah, which is predominantly Christian.

Artikel ini menjabarkan perkembangan diskusi dalam disiplin antropologi mengenai fenomena sosial yang dimediasi oleh teknologi digital dan tinjauan kritis dari studi terhadap fenomena tersebut. Lebih lanjut lagi, dalam konteks perkembangan antropologi di Indonesia, tulisan ini bertujuan memberikan pengantar dalam menggunakan pendekatan etnografi un...